In the beginning…

Sunshine Barossa was born in 2016 when owner and founder, Carol Dadds, discovered a trunk filled with beautiful hides and leather working tools at her mother’s home. Carol’s relationship with leather and hides, however, began much earlier in her life and goes back three generations. It began with her maternal grandmother, Elizabeth, who worked as a tailor creating leather handbags and commissioned pieces for the wealthy. Carol grew up on a horse stud and she has vivid memories of her father teaching her how to braid and plait leather strips used to make bridles, halters, and the like for the horses. 

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